the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

What its children become, that will the community become.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.